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Two sisters testified in Harvey Weinstein’s recent criminal trial. Kaja Sokola accuses disgraced movie mogul of sexual harassment. Ewa Sokola was called as a witness to promote their claims, but ultimately helped the defence.
Now, Eva Sokola is suing Caja for defamation, alleging in a suit filed Tuesday manhattan The federal court said the psychiatrist and former model’s public comments were defamatory and damaging to Eva’s reputation and business as a cardiologist. poland,
Ewa Sokola says her younger sister made false statements in Wroclaw, Poland, which have caused her to face public hatred, shame, contempt, ridicule, ostracism and humiliation. She wants unspecified damages.
Messages seeking comment were left Thursday and Friday for lawyers and a spokesperson for Caja Sokola.
In a split verdict in June, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on film and television production assistant and producer Miriam Haley and acquitted of similar conduct charges against Kaja Sokola. Both women said they were attacked in 2006.
After the jury foreperson refused to deliberate further, the judge declared a mistrial on the final charge, which accused Weinstein of raping former actor Jessica Mann.
Weinstein has not yet been sentenced as a judge considered a defense request to vacate the verdict, after two jurors told Weinstein’s lawyers that other jurors had intimidated them into convicting. Judge Curtis Farber is expected to issue a verdict on January 8.
Kaja Sokola speaks about her sister’s testimony in Weinstein’s state court trial new york Her own testimony earlier this year that he forced her to perform oral sex on him in a Manhattan hotel just before her 20th birthday was undermined.
Weinstein had arranged for Kaja Sokola to be hired as an extra on the film “The Nanny Diaries” for a day and agreed to meet with her and Eva separately. She testified that, after the conversation, Weinstein told her he had a script to show her in his hotel room, and she went with him. There, she said, Weinstein pushed her onto a bed and assaulted her.
After the trial, Kaja Sokola criticized her sister’s testimony, saying that although she was called as a prosecution witness, she served Weinstein’s cause by providing his lawyers with a journal in which she wrote about men who had sexually assaulted her in her life, but did not involve Weinstein.
According to the lawsuit, Kaja Sokola repeatedly described her sister’s testimony as a personal “betrayal” and falsely accused her of releasing journals in which she described what happened to Weinstein.
The lawsuit also said that Kaja Sokola had falsely accused Eva Sokola of murder, theft, falsification of medical records, sexual impropriety and unethical conduct, and collusion with Weinstein’s defense team.
The lawsuit states that Kaja Sokola’s false claims cost Eva Sokola referrals and a reduction in the number of patients and staff for her medical practice, while harming her professional reputation and her standing within the medical community.